I met some terrific families at the Marian Koshland Science Museum this weekend. Some kids and parents wanted to know about how to learn about computers and programming. Others wanted to know more about biology. One parent emailed me later to ask about his 9-year old son who is especially interested in biology.

Elizabeth “Li” Van Nostrand writes about biology, psychology and video games at her blog, AcesoUnderGlass.com. She is a rare sciencer/gamer person. She was kind enough to give us some comments on her experience playing Immune Defense. My replies are in grey. You can see, she gave me some excellent questions.

The Indie Stone, makers of Project Zomboid, an awesome cooperative survival game on Steam- loved Immune Defense so much that they asked us to do a Zombie pathogen. We are researching whether a virus or a bacteria will be our Zombie vector….

Immune Defense was one of 40 indie games that were chosen to be part of MAGFest’s Indie Video Game Showcase this year! We received a lot of great comments, we brought three laptops and all three were occupied just about every minute… people happily dove into our strange and beautiful world,

Immune defense is a strategy game in which you earn to master molecular behavior to win. Year, it is a serious game, that is, you will learn something that is relevant to the universe you inhabit (as opposed to learning reams of details about a fantasy universe,